Top 10: things to do under £10
It’s nearly the end of January – but not quite payday. Here are some neighbourhood ideas on the cheap
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Kentishtowner Awards: Best Boozer 2012
Whilst we are excited by all the new openings in 2012, we were pleased that a true institution swept the board in the end for this category. And people’s responses were passionate; you’re obviously a hard-drinking bunch. Lots of colour: Delancey Street’s Crown & Goose (an ‘always reliable oasis’), the Torriano, Dartmouth Arms, Star and …
Kentishtowner Awards: Best New Opening 2012
Welcome to the 2012 Reader Awards celebrating the best our area has to offer. And what a year it’s been! Firstly, we’re chuffed that so many of you voted – and thanks too to Kabbee for sponsoring them. Now, with so many exciting new ventures starting up in the manor over the last 12 months, …
Pinboard: The Return of Camden Lock Night Market. Plus: another cocktail bar for Kentish Town?
1. The Return Of The Lock. We loved Camden Lock’s first ever night markets back in the summer: on a warm city evening, the smell of brochettes grilling, the smoke twisting into the air, was surprisingly intoxicating. And it was nice to see the space reclaimed by Londoners rather than the usual mob of tourists. …
Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Michael Ptootch, 45, Salon & Gallery Owner
Michael Ptootch (not his real surname) was born in Tufnell Park in 1967. In winter 1990 he opened what became Flaxon Ptootch at 237 Kentish Town Road, the latter name inspired by ‘Ptutch’, a local Anglo-Russian arts journal based above what is now Costa Coffee. He has been one of K-Town’s longest-running artier fixtures ever …
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Community Pinboard: New Stuff for Autumn
1.Delicious Font Alert. Yes, the soon-to-open artisan cafe on Prince Of Wales Road (Wilkin Street Mews) is displaying some Times New Roman (traced in paint, apparently) that could be a work lifted straight out of the nearby Zabludowicz. The other panel reads ‘this side is intentionally blank.’ Yikes. Expect plenty of beard-stroking with your double …
5 Best Pubs & Bars to watch Euro 2012 Football in Kentish Town
We admit we’re not the most ardent footy fans, but a good international tournament lends summer a special collective vibe that’s hard to beat. So with England’s first game of Euro 2012 easing us into the right frame of mind last night, here are 5 of the very best places in K-Town to enjoy the …
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‘Shebeen’ : the downstairs cocktail bar at Kentish Canteen
MRS KENTISHTOWNER HAS A MOTTO: if you get up early enough, you can board the day and ride it easily. If you don’t, you only end up having to push it in front of you as you go. And she repeated this again and again, head aching, the other morning, after the launch night at …
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